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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Jackson, MS

March 14, 201726 counties in Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this freeze warning at Mar 14, 2017, 3:48 AM CDT for 26 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Mar 15, 2017, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 14, 2017, 3:48 AM CDT (08:48 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 15, 2017, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 15, 2017, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
All 26 counties

Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Scott County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2017-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2017-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Mar 14, 12:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 12:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 3:48 AM CDTFreeze WatchJANAttala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay and 28 more24 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Mississippi, 2017Every freeze warning in 2017

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.